Dark Ambition Dark Ambition

Dark Ambition

The Shocking Crime of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

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Publisher Description

Shortlisted for the 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Nonfiction Category
Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors


Tim Bosma was a happy young father with a promising future when he listed his pickup truck for sale online, went for a test drive with two strangers, and never returned. The story of the Hamilton man’s strange disappearance in May 2013 captured headlines across the country and took over social media, resonating with everyone who had ever taken a test drive or bought and sold goods online. 
     When Dellen Millard and Mark Smich were eventually arrested and charged with Bosma’s murder, the mystery only deepened. Millard was the wealthy heir to an aviation business. Smich was his ne’er-do-well best friend from a middle-class family. There was no obvious reason why the pair had made it their deadly mission to steal a truck, murder its owner, and incinerate the body. Tim Bosma was their randomly chosen “thrill kill” target.
     Veteran journalist and private investigator Ann Brocklehurst had a front-row seat at Millard’s and Smich’s 2016 trial, where many of the questions about their shocking crime were finally answered. Others still linger, waiting to be further explained at two more murder trials set for 2017. Both Millard and Smich have been charged with the first-degree murder of Laura Babcock, who disappeared in summer 2012. And Millard alone faces murder charges in the death of his father, which previously has been ruled a suicide.
     Compelling and suspenseful, Dark Ambition chronicles an unfathomable crime and its chilling perpetrators.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2016
November 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
10.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Kymmieville ,

The shocking crime of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich

This book tells a story of 2 men who have stole and killed an innocent mans life. Very good book to read. Great job ANN BROCKLEHURST.

MapleTwinkie ,

Disappointed

Waited anxiously for this to come out as I love Ms Brockelhursts blog. But this book was disappointing in the way it was written (so much was left out) and there was nothing beyond what you can read online in the book. Expected so much more. Glad I didn't get the hardcover.

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